Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A miserably dull , windy and cold Saturday morning beckoned for the last of my Island days and Ewen very kindly had given up his spare time to run me around the Stornoway locality before dropping me off at the airport . |
| 2 | The 6ft 10ins Northampton and England lock spoke for the forwards when he said : ‘ Our backs can run rings round New Zealand . |
| 3 | After the awful strip which the England team wore for the World Cup we saw them back in their traditional all-white kit at Murrayfield . |
| 4 | just a few weeks before her death he had written fondly to her on a postcard from Florence ( where the Sadler 's Wells Ballet went for the Maggio Musicale festival ) that she ‘ would love it so . |
| 5 | On the house ! ’ you are probably mumbling to yourself as you polish off the bottle of Jim Beam meant for the 15 April issue winner . |
| 6 | In a statement this evening , Thames Water apologized for the inconvenience caused , but said they must always give the welfare of their customers the highest priority . |
| 7 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 8 | Bristol City looked for the offside … |
| 9 | Ronnie Moran , who had been chatting with Mr Souness about the match hours before the Liverpool manager headed for the operating theatre , will have to report failure in his first game in charge . |
| 10 | The Toronto Sunday Star reached for the superlatives with the release of his 1987 LP Road to Bayamon : ‘ A stinky travelogue of carny lust and human sorrow that reveals a literate and keen-eyed songsmith , one who seems inclined to suss out small truths rather than indulge in epic pretensions . ’ |
| 11 | Beta for the 486 version has stretched to September with OEM delivery rescheduled for the fourth quarter and the likelihood of shrink-wrap pushed into 1993 . |
| 12 | Despite having visited the country and despite a long interest in the area , even I was not fully aware of the complexities and the depth of feeling in the various component parts of Yugoslavia until I read the quite remarkable book that Chris Cviic wrote for the Royal Institute of International Affairs only a few months ago . |
| 13 | The Exec Director paused for a good twenty seconds before continuing : ‘ Did they share any women , anything like that ? ’ |
| 14 | This June Meeting asked for the bond balances to be called in so as the final land purchase could go ahead and , for the first of many times , it discussed the question of the use of caddies on a Sunday . |